KI4MVP
formerly LJ4MVP
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I am so torn on this. Traffic jams would get reduced, less drunk drivers, overall much safer, and we could get places faster.
But fuck you robot. I dont trust my wife driving who has never been in an accident or gotten a ticket, why should I trust you.
Would you rather the other cars on the road be drive by unpredictable people who get fatigued or by well trained neural nets that constantly monitor everything happening in every direction at once? How often do you drive past someone who is looking at their phone while driving. I see it all of the time.
And you trust it when there are hundreds of millions of miles of data proving safety.
My car, not a Tesla, has driver assistance. Keeps the car in the lane, adjusts speed to traffic, including stop and go traffic. And on the highways it will check traffic and change lanes for you when you put blinker on. Also monitors when you drive and stops you from drifting out of the lane, alerts you if you try to change lanes and there is a vehicle there. It requires well marked roads and can’t handle it if there isn’t a line on the right side of the road like happens on so many roads.
Tesla has gone far beyond what my car can do, and is accelerating their rate of improvement.
Blue screen of death.
Networks crash all the time. 5G is not going to be installed on every road. Weather will hamper AI. Coders are not perfect.
I'm not worried about it though. It will be impossible to outlaw human drivers because nobody's telling Bubba in South Alabama that he can't drive his F150 truck.
Driver assistance is popular and I'm glad I have it. Driverless cars - no.
One of my best friends is a test driver for one of the programs so I know allot about this. They are close, but still years away.
The first self driving cars will be like taxi's on pre-determined routes, but even that is a few years away. Its a very competitive industry with many companies trying to be the first and they don't all use the exact same technology.
It will be an interesting race.
They will all rely on infrastructure that absolutely stinks.
It's going to be incredibly difficult to get sufficient 5G coverage across the country. More to the point - the public is very receptive to driver assistance but self-driving cars face considerable opposition.
The tech bros just assume an all-powerful Federal Government will outlaw driving by people because that fits their technocratic worldview. Not happening.
One of my best friends is a test driver for one of the programs so I know allot about this. They are close, but still years away
They will all rely on infrastructure that absolutely stinks.
It's going to be incredibly difficult to get sufficient 5G coverage across the country. More to the point - the public is very receptive to driver assistance but self-driving cars face considerable opposition.
The tech bros just assume an all-powerful Federal Government will outlaw driving by people because that fits their technocratic worldview. Not happening.
Test driver for a driverless car?
That's like the movie "One on One" where the protagonist (Robbie Benson) is a scholarship BB player at a big school and gets a job turning on the sprinklers for the football field.
They're all on automatic timers.